74 My blue corduroy iumper- and brother can wear his corduroy to match hers, $7..95 -- his,. $5.95 SAKS FIFTH AVENUE ALL STORES BABY McCARDELL S.HOES BY TRIMFOOT. - "American Airlines, Inc. carrtes more passengers than any other airline in the worM" (Advertisement) paint. She bought only two Braques, both after the First World War, and soon traded them for somebody else. Of the earlier days, she once said to a friend, "Braque was tall and big and handsome. It was very handy, his be- ing so tall Without using a stepladder, he could hang pictures on the top row of my studio wall. He used to do a lot of physical culture with Guillaume Apollinaire." Apollinaire was fascinat- ed by physical culture, then a novelty in France, and wanted to edit a maga- zine on it. Braque's physical culture took the form of boxing, which had just become popular in Paris. (In the art critic Andr6 Warnod's souvenirs of the Montmartre days, he recalls Braque as "a big fellow.., with a neck like a bull . . . looked hke a boxer ") He often sparred with an English professional whom he admired. There has long been a legend in Paris about a boxing match among the three giants of the group: the heavyweight Vlaminck; Detain, who was the tallest; and bull- necked Braque, who was the best. Ac- cording to the legend, Braque suc- cessfully took both of them on, one after the other. The straight of it seems to be that t was not glaminck but Roche, six feet tall, who was one of the outsize fighters; he had been coached by Alfred Frueh, who was then study- ing art in Paris and later became a cari- caturist in America. The match was fought in somebody's Montmartre stu- dio, and neither Roch6, who fought first, nor Detain, who was taller and heavier than Braque and a pretty good man with the gloves, ever got inside Braque's defense. In art circles, Braque had a big reputation as a boxer. One night, the rumor spread around the Caf6 du Dgme, in Montparnasse, that he was fighting that evening, under an- other name, in one of the preliminaries at the Cirque d'Hiver; half the artists on the caf4 terrace hurried over to see, but it was a false alarm. Tales about Braque's strength and prowess circulated like myths. Roch4 says that the first time he ever saw him was at the 1907 Bal des Quat'z Arts, which Braque was attending as an ex- Beaux-Arts man. He was attired as an almost naked Roman warrior, and was sitting near the bottom of a stair- case with a beautiful girl dressed rather like a statue of Venus. At their feet was a huge decorated float that was being given its finishing touches for the grande entree by some atelier students, who were being very discommoding to Braque and his companion. "If you don't stop bothering us, I'll tip that